You need to understand that the PDF document isn't displaying text, it's displaying a graphical representation of text. This looks like a Postscript file that's been converted to a .pdf using Ghostscript.

You need to understand that the PDF document isn't displaying text, it's displaying a graphical representation of text. This looks like a Postscript file that's been converted to a .pdf using Ghostscript. The "characters" you see on the screen are in Adobe PS Type3 font and this font does not map to unicode so if you cut and paste it you just end up with random characters as you need a Postscript engine to interpret them.

Your quickest conversion would be to use a free OCR package and cut and paste a screenshot to this section as a graphic for conversion to text.

After years of analyzing threat actor behavior, it’s become clear that at any given time there are specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that are particularly prevalent. By analyzing and understanding these TTPs, you can dramatically enhance your security program.

I just used IrfanView with the PDF and Kadmos OCR plug-ins on your file (all are free). I also downloaded the French language dictionary for Kadmos, which produced a much better result than the English dictionary. Here's a copy/paste of what it created from your doc:

Hi LLaurent,
It's been 10 days since I documented a solution for you (using free tools only) in this post <http:#a40450183> and I'm wondering if you've had a chance to try it. It worked perfectly here (as the copy/paste at my last post shows), but if you're having any problems getting it to work, please let me know and I'll try to help you through it. Regards, Joe

There is definitely enough useful information to be called an "answer". My solution presented in <http:#a40450183> works perfectly. As the asker requested, it uses all free tools — the free IrfanView, the free PlugIns for PDF support, and the free plug-in for OCR, including its free French language dictionary. I ran the proposed solution on the asker's actual file. It worked perfectly — I even did a copy/paste of the results from the asker's actual file into my post. I'd like to know if anyone can explain how this doesn't exactly and precisely answer the question. Thanks, Joe

MASQ makes an excellent point about <http:#a40449715>, where the asker seems to say that Nitro Pro's PDF Creator capability answers the question (but is too expensive and too big/sophisticated) and so does Foxit PhantomPDF (also an expensive, big, sophisticated product). That's when the asker (in <http:#a40449250>) made it clear that he wants a free product:

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